2 Teams Used Andy's Plays to Score TD's Today
 

Look familiar?

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The first play closely resembles the Kareem touchdown and was a helluva play by the running back here. When we ran it, there were more defenders who had their attention on tyreek who was the man in motion

The NFL has always been a copy cat league. Nice to see our coach be the one being copied rather than being one of the copy cats.

Yeah I saw that too.

I was watching the Rams/Cowboys, and when that play happened, I thought the same thing. I hadn't seen the Saints until now.

Yep I noticed the Kamara shovel pass immediately. Thought that was cool, but that also means teams will catch on and adjust soon.

Come on now. The top is just a pass to a RB route out of the backfield. It has been around and used a long time now. Nothing new, or just because of Ried.
The second one is a more traditional shovel pass not like the misdirection one that we have used a few times this season, but there again this version, not Reids, of the shovel pass has been around for a long long time.

These plays have existed for years. Did you start watching football six weeks ago?

Yeah.

The second one, though, is basically Reid's exact call.

The first is a fairly standard WCO pass.

ROFL

Are you old enough to remember the early 90's Bills? They used that pass so much it became a running gag from Chris Berman on NFL Primetime.

Football goes in cycles. The shovel pass has not been a particularly popular playcall over the last 15-20 years in the NFL. Just like the "Wildcat" was being used by the Chicago Bears in the 1980's but when it was brought back heavily by the Dolphins it caught teams off guard because it hadn't been used in such a long time. This shovel pass concept falls in line with that. Not much is truly "new" in football, it's just stuff that hasn't been used in a very long time, especially at the NFL level.

The first GIF is an EXACT carbon copy of the TD pass to Hunt against NE. Same formation, same motion, same exact routes all over the field. Ran against the same coverage. That play was absolutely stolen from Reid.

Can we call the shovel pass play the Reid? I mean, if it's gonna be popular for a long time, it should be named after the inventor right?

Technically it's Matt Canada OC of Pitt last year that created that exact play, to my knowledge.